Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Summary
Our soul is escaped as a bird out of the snare of the fowlers: the snare is broken, and we are escaped.
Bible References
Our soul
1 Samuel 23:26
And Saul and his men went on the one side of the mountain, and David and his men on the other. And David, as a man amazed, made haste to get from Saul. For Saul and his men had compassed David and his men round about, to take them.
1 Samuel 24:14
After whom art thou come out, thou king of Israel? After whom chasest thou? Even after a dead dog, and after a flea!
1 Samuel 25:29
And if any man rise to persecute thee and to seek thy soul, the soul of my lord be bound in a bundle of life with the LORD thy God. And the souls of thy enemies be slung in the middle of a sling.
2 Samuel 17:2
And I will come upon him while he is weary and weak handed, and will fear him, that all the people that are with him shall flee. And so will I smite the king only,
As a bird
Psalm 25:15
Mine eyes are ever looking unto the LORD; for he shall pluck my feet out of the net.
Psalm 91:3
For he shall deliver thee from the snare of the hunter, and from the noisome pestilence.
Proverbs 6:5
Save thyself as a doe from the hand, and as a bird from the hand of the fowler.
Jeremiah 5:26
For among my people are found wicked persons, that privily lay snares and wait for me, to take them and destroy them.
Jeremiah 18:22
Let the noise be heard out of their houses, when the murderer cometh suddenly upon them: For they have digged a pit to take me, and laid snares for my feet.
2 Timothy 2:26
that they may come to themselves again out of the snare of the devil, which are now taken of him at his will.